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Create new "last login timestamp" attribute in LDAP for entries

RACF provides an attribute, LAST-ACCESS, which is mapped to racfLastAccess in SDBM which can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.glpa200/tivrff.htm#racfcf This searchable attribute returns th...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

IEBCOPY Member Generations - Add/Merge option

With the new IEBCOPY CPYGRP GENS=ALL the REPLACE option will first delete the copy member and generations from the target and then perform the copy. That eliminates the member and generations in the target which is counter intuitive considering th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Allow reuse for VSAM file opened in RLS mode

To be able to use REPRO with the REUSE option against a VSAM file that is opened in RLS mode
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page6. Actual...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

New RACF resource to block the command “SETIOS HYPERSWAP” only

Description: The Itau bank has 2 very large Sysplexes Bank and Cards. Both environments have the GDPS 4.3 MGM with hyperswap active. This RFE is to request a specific RACF resource only to block the command “SETIOS HYPERSWAP”, nowadays there is on...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

ISPF Enhanced PANEL Edit highlighting

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support enhanced highlighting for the ISPF PANEL language. ISPF PANEL highlighting is very sparse, not highlighting over 170 keywords used by the PANEL language. PANEL developers on z/OS will experience signif...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

Prevent IEBGENER overlay of PDS or PDSE dataset

When using IEBGENER it is possible to forget to add a MEMBER NAME on the SYSUT2 which then corrupts the PDS or PDS/E. Sometimes you can recover but sometimes you cannot. It would be helpful if IEBGENER could TEST the dataset type on SYSUT2 and if ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

Fixing the CICS-LE Recovery Loops

When there is an overlay of either an LE or CICS control block in a CICS environment, CICS & LE can get into a loop trying to abend/recover from the failure.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Planned for future release

PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION monitor *MASTER* address space

Check PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION should monitor *MASTER* storage exhaustion.Usually when the master address space storage exhausts an IPL is needed to recover. This would not be necessary if PFA had alerted on the gradual storage inflation cau...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

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